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If your 2.4 yr old is ready in most ways to start potty training but refuses to sit on the toilet do you....

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ConnorTraceptive · 27/10/2007 12:53

just leave it for a while and try again in a couple of months or persevere?

Over the summer DS was really good at going to the toilet just for poos but this all fell by the wayside a bit when I was in hospital. Now he gets really upset if you put him on the toilet at all.

I tried this week to go straight for the put him in pants and take to the loo every twenty minutes approach but he just wouldn't stay on the loo for more than twenty seconds even with bribes of chocolate buttons.

I don't want to force him so should I just leave it for now?

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SnottyGorillaHead · 27/10/2007 12:58

I woudl leave it if i were you. he is quite young really. defo dont try to force him, if bribes dont work

puppydavies · 27/10/2007 13:00

have you tried a potty? the chair ones are good.

lomondgore · 27/10/2007 13:21

I wouldn't force it, he is still young. My dd was almost three before she was ready.

It wouldn't hurt to have a potty around though, if he wants to use it he will.

When I felt my dd was ready we made a big thing of getting her a new step stool and toilet trainer for the big toilet and she never looked at the potty again.

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ConnorTraceptive · 27/10/2007 13:26

Will try a potty, never have before as he used to be quite happy to try the toilet.

I will leave the potty around and see how he takes to it, other than that I'll leave him til after christmas.

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NoBiggy · 27/10/2007 13:31

DD wouldn't sit on the toilet to start with, so we used a potty, and asked her to sing a song just so she stayed there long enough.

yomellamoHelly · 27/10/2007 15:55

Tried the leave it 'til later approach with ds1. A year later I was fed up and forced him sit on the loo while I counted to 10. After 3 months of this - he can be very stubborn! - (a whole term's worth - he was over 3 1/2 by then) of freaking out because I was making him do something he didn't want to the complaining became more about being interrupted from whatever he was doing. Then worked on the toilet training bit - though he did it all in a day/night because he was so "ready" iyswim.

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